Len McCluskey was full of his usual fire and brimstone after results were
posted by Centrica yesterday: “We could have warm homes and reduce our fuel
bills if companies, including British Gas [owned by Centrica, of course],
used more of its profits to insulate homes to reduce the cost of energy
bills,” the Unite general secretary claimed.

Energy costs are only going to get worse, regulators and analysts agree. So
how are we going to cut energy use? Centrica’s stock exchange announcement,
published four hours earlier, contained this line: “In 2012, 400,000 of our
most vulnerable customers received the warm

It is understandable that the construction of an air-polluting,
noise-blighting £22 billion third runway to turn Heathrow into the world’s
pre-eminent superhub caught the eye, but the Davies report into airport
expansion also made another radical suggestion: that — third runway or not —
Heathrow should start acting like the UK hub that it pretends to be